A one-time federal tax credit is available to employers who hire new temporary, seasonal, part-time, and full-time employees from a qualified population of individuals including veterans (including a new subcategory of disabled veterans). The veteran must be a person who has served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces for a period of more than 180 days, or was discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability, and a member of a family that received food stamps for a period of 3 months during the most recent 15 months ending on the hiring date.

Disabled Veterans are those who receive compensation for a service-connected disability and have a hiring date which is not more than one year after having been discharged or released from active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States; or have aggregate periods of unemployment during the one-year period ending on the hiring date equal to or exceeding six months. The amount of qualified wages for this group only is increased from $6,000 to $12,000.